GeoEd Program: Track 2 Integrative Collaboration: the Sensor Network: A New Bay Areas ReGENA on Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases

加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）和Chabot空间与科学中心（Chabot）之间的这种合作正在吸引当地学生，教育工作者和公众参与实践活动和非正式教育机会，重点关注气候科学以及大旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区空气质量和温室气体（GHG）的测量。 该项目利用了一个由约250个研究节点组成的新网络，这些节点配有传感器，可不断收集目前正在开发的大气数据（CO2、CO、NO2、O3、温度和相对湿度），以部署在旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区。 通过该奖项，将为Chabot管理的K-12教育项目提供数据的22个网络节点正在建设和部署中。正在创建支持教育使用该网络的气候变化科学研讨会、课程、教师培训、网站信息和展览，以支持该地区四所学校的在职教师及其学生，包括高度多样化的奥克兰联合学区。 联合活动，使UCB教师，研究生和本科研究人员定期接触在职教师和K-12学生从大湾区包括在该项目中。 通过传感器网络收集的数据为Chabot项目和主办地学校的学生提供了基于地点的教学机会。 每年举行一次研讨会，报告这项研究的科学成果，为参与Chabot教育工作的K-12学生、教师和公众提供了额外的机会。该项目支持UCB研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划，UCB地球和行星科学系和大气科学中心，Chabot及其合作伙伴奥克兰联合学区之间的区域联盟，以提高传统上代表性不足的学生参与地球科学和STEM学科的具体目的。 该项目为整合研究、教育和外联提供了一个新的模式，可在地球仪各地的城市推广。

This collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and the Chabot Space and Science Center (Chabot) is engaging local students, educators, and the public in hands-on activities and informal educational opportunities that focus on climate science and the measurement of air quality and greenhouse gases (GHG) in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The project leverages a new network of ~250 research nodes with sensors that constantly collect atmospheric data (CO2, CO, NO2, O3, temperature and relative humidity) currently under development for deployment in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through this award, 22 nodes of the network that will provide data for use in K-12 educational programs administered by Chabot is being built and deployed. Seminars, classes, teacher trainings, website information and exhibits on the science of climate change that support the educational use of this network are being created to support in-service teachers and their students from four schools in the region, including the highly diverse Oakland Unified School District. Joint activities to bring UCB faculty, graduate students and undergraduate researchers into regular contact with the in-service teachers and K-12 students from the greater Bay Area are included in the project. Data collected through the sensor network offers a place-based teaching opportunity for students in the Chabot programs and at host site schools. An annual seminar to report on the scientific results of the study offers an additional opportunity for engagement of the K-12 students, teachers and members of the public who participate in Chabot's educational efforts. The project supports a developing regional alliance between the UCB Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program, the UCB Earth and Planetary Sciences Department and Atmospheric Science Center, Chabot and its partner, the Oakland Unified School District, for the specific purpose of increasing the participation of traditionally underrepresented students in the geosciences and STEM disciplines. The project provides a new model for integrating research, education and outreach that can be replicated in municipalities around the globe.